Quotes About Imagination

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

William Sleator

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

The Steinbeck house was full of books, and as John's sister Beth recalled, "The choice was ours." Some years later Steinbeck reckoned that the books he immersed himself in as a boy were "realer than experience." He didn't remember them as books, but as "something that happened to me.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Before you have your dreams, your dreams have you, and every day pushes a night before it while the wilderness follows.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn't like.

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.

Sadece roman duygu sömürüsü yapmadan anlatabilir.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation.

A nightmare is a black dream because our soul wandered too far in sleep into a haunted place

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.